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American beauties were everywhere you looked at last week's Tod's and Vogue co-hosted party, appropriate enough given that the champagne was flowing to toast the book launch of Claiborne Swanson Frank's American Beauty. Held at the massive party space du jour, 583 Park Avenue, a former synagogue, the spate of gorgeous girls (including our own global editor Connie Wang) on hand were actually also subjects of photographer Frank's camera skills, as evidenced by all the cellphone snaps we saw of the beauts mugging with their portraits.

If there's one thing that can be said for 1990, it's that a lot of great movies came out that year. Indie darlings like Whit Stillman and Hal Hartley were just getting started. Icons like Martin Scorsese, the Coen brothers, David Lynch, and Spike Lee were putting out fresh and exciting work. A then relative unknown by the read

UPDATE: With the exciting news of Taylor Swift becoming a godmother to Jaime King's baby, we've got celebrity godparents on our mind. Ahead, 20 surprising celeb pairings.
This story was originally published on July 2, 2014:
Imagine if your yearly Thanksgiving gathering included the usual cast of characters — plus Bono. read